construction: translation
noun ⇨ See also ↑building
1 roads/buildings
ADJECTIVE
▪ large, massive
▪ massive constructions of bamboo and paper
▪ basic, simple
▪ It has a basic construction of brick under a tiled roof.
▪ complex
▪ heavy
▪ the heavy construction industry
▪ solid
▪ walls of solid construction
▪ careful
▪ The drainage system needs careful construction.
▪ new
▪ brick, concrete, steel, timber (esp.BrE), wood, wooden
▪ a massive steel construction
▪ a schoolhouse of brick construction
▪ bridge, building, canal, highway (AmE), railroad (AmE), railway (BrE), road
▪ Road and bridge construction is underway.
▪ home (esp. AmE), house, housing, residential (AmE)
VERB + CONSTRUCTION
▪ begin, start
▪ complete
▪ Construction of the new road has now been completed.
▪ oversee
CONSTRUCTION + VERB
▪ be underway
CONSTRUCTION + NOUN
▪ industry, market (esp. AmE), sector
▪ business, company, firm (esp. BrE), group
▪ programme/program, project
▪ contract
▪ permit (AmE)
▪ job
▪ work
▪ crew, manager, team, worker
▪ site (esp. AmE), yard
▪ costs
▪ management, schedule (esp. AmE)
▪ equipment (esp. AmE), materials
▪ method, process, technique
PREPOSITION
▪ during (the) construction
▪ Major engineering challenges will be faced during construction.
▪ under construction
▪ A new factory is under construction.
2 grammar
ADJECTIVE
▪ grammatical, linguistic, sentence, syntactic
▪ active, passive